Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of ...

The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. There are plans to create ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

As asteroid mining becomes a reality ... says ‘My father used to make 450 nightwear garments in a day, I learnt those designs’ A giant 540-foot asteroid is speeding at 77,282 km/h towards ...

If they fail, Odin becomes another piece of lost space history. AstroForge hoped to pioneer asteroid mining, but Odin’s failure could shake confidence in commercial deep-space missions ...